Chapter 68 Departure

  Yang Yunqiu solemnly promised that he did not want to be too close to the Sun family in Quanzhou, so he thought of going to Beijing, and it was not this year that he had to take the exam.

  He came to cultivate himself and didn't have to be an official, thinking of being a high-ranking official?

  Yang Yunqiu was preparing to go to the capital, and Sun Zhifu also gave him some money to buy new clothes and hats, not just the necessary stationery, but also to replace his old clothes and shoes, so that he would not be looked down upon when he arrived in Beijing.

  He originally intended to let the two sons go together, but the Yu family said that they would take Sun Zhao Yang to Beijing first to get familiar with relatives and friends. Since then, he also agreed, but if he really let the Yu family bring his second son along, he himself felt it was not proper.

  Yang Yunqiu didn't care whether Sun Zhi had any ulterior motives or not, but he was extremely worried about the road conditions to Yin Chao. For the past few days, he had been hiding in the mountains and had manually rebuilt a new sea-land-air three-wheeled vehicle powered by spiritual energy, just like the one he had built in Yan Guo.

  The car was built, and even Li Shanshan was so happy that she almost floated away. Like her cousin Li Zifeng, the people in the Li family all loved racing cars. Don't look at Li Shanshan's shyness now, when she was studying, she was also famous for being playful and mischievous.

  Yang Yunqiu drove the car into mid-air and made a slight turn.

  Er Ya and Zhou Da Li, the only two subordinates under his command, looked at him with eyes that seemed to be gazing at a god.

  This thing looks like it could be a divine steed from heaven no matter how you look at it.

  Yang Yunqiu didn't explain, in fact this thing was originally a mount for cultivators, truly long-lived and far-sighted cultivators aren't they just like the Great Luo Golden Immortals? Now he can completely be said to be an immortal apprentice.

  The king originally wanted to bring Yang Yunqiu and the others with him to Beijing, but he was worried about his son and wanted to stay in Quanzhou for a while longer. Besides, Yang Yunqiu didn't want to travel with him either; it's more comfortable for them to go on their own.

  Besides, Rouge also wants to go to the capital, saying that she has stayed in Quanzhou for too long and is tired of the local scenery, wanting to enter the capital city to meet other famous courtesans.

  Yanzhi was considered the number one courtesan and beauty in Quanzhou, with a great reputation. However, it's different in the capital city. In the capital, there's Miss Xiao from the Four Directions Pavilion, who is a renowned qin master, with her music lingering for three days. Then there's Rong Dajia from the Feicui Building, who at 16 years old can dance on the palm of one's hand, as light as a swallow, and is admired by thousands. And then there's Shuixiantian, an official courtesan from the Teaching Bureau, whose beauty is said to be so stunning that even the emperor wouldn't dare to defile her.

  Compared with these world-renowned beauties, rouge is a bit inferior.

  In the capital city, no matter who you are or what industry you're in, nobody dares to claim they're the best in the world.

  Yan Zhi wanted to go to Beijing, which was not surprising at all. Although the young masters of Quanzhou were very disappointed.

  She didn't travel with Yang Yunqiu, mainly because the reputation of rouge was too great. If she traveled with a man, it would have a big impact on her value. At this time, Rouge hadn't made up her mind to retire yet, so it's better to be careful.

  However, Yang Yunqiu still had to take Mei along with her.

  It just so happened that Li Shanshan's three-year mourning period had already passed, and she reported to Sun Zhifu, planning to go to the capital to pay respects to her parents and also return to visit her maternal family. As soon as Sun Zhifu heard that Li Shanshan wanted to travel with his second son, he happily agreed and specially instructed Yang Yuna to take good care of her cousin, saying many warm words.

  As soon as she left the study, Li Shanshan couldn't help but mutter: "This cheap father is really good at calculating, the Yin family has been single-handedly passed down for generations, and now that I'm the only daughter, my dowry is worth a full million, all of which are stored in the Sloan Money House in Beijing. The original owner had mentioned this to Sun Zhaoyang before, so your father must know about it too."

  Yang Yunqiu raised an eyebrow: "Then you really should consider marrying me, with two million taels of silver, there are too many things that can be done. With this amount of money, I have the confidence to buy as many spiritual objects as I want."

  Li Shanshan gave him a sideways glance, which delighted Yang Yunqiu. Now this girl had clearly shaken off her shadow, and even if she thought about it again, it wouldn't affect her normal life. He had earned another big merit. With such a successful example, he would be more confident when facing similar situations in the future.

  Recently, without saying it out loud, he also knew that his merits should have really earned a lot, and perhaps the efforts of these days had finally started to bear fruit. The heavens were willing to bestow their blessings. In the past, during cultivation, there was always an inexplicable sense of stagnation, but now everything was going smoothly. He was only one step away from becoming a 5th rank cultivator, and Yang Yunqiu felt that the breakthrough was just ahead, as long as his spiritual energy accumulated enough, he would definitely be able to ascend to the 5th rank with ease.

  In his father's memory, the fifth-grade monk used the time-space door more smoothly, and it was so this time. Now that they can truly open the gate of the lower plane where they are staying, Yang Yunqiu has tried to let Wang Yi and others send a mobile phone over there, which is quite smooth.

  He is not using the other functions of the time-space gate for now, mainly to maintain the time difference between the two worlds. He also doesn't plan to let those students on Earth travel in person for the time being. In case they encounter danger, even if it means losing a wisp of divine consciousness, it's much better than dying entirely.

  Although it's not in use now, thoroughly mastering the Space-Time Gate always gives Yang Yunqiu some confidence.

  In case of great danger in the lower realm, and not wanting to lose one's physical body or damage one's spiritual consciousness, perhaps one can escape through the time-space gate to another realm to avoid disaster.

  With it there, Yang Yunqiu and those students are equivalent to having the safest hiding place.

  The doll is also happy, it's just that as long as its master's power increases, it will be happy.

  On Wēn Shān, they stayed for two more days. They also obtained a large quantity of medicinal herbs and pills from Lài Mùróng, and left some silver money with Chén Júniáng, telling her not to hesitate to spend it. Then Yáng Yùnqiū bid farewell to Sūn Zhīfǔ.

  He traveled very low-key, except for Er Ya and Zhou Dali following him, as well as Li Shanshan's servants, he didn't bring anyone else, unlike Sun Zhaoyang, who had twenty large carts loaded when he left, and brought over a hundred servants, it was said that there was also a batch of gifts to be transported by sea directly to the capital.

  This is not the case with Magistrate Sun, who is truly biased to this extent. Although his two sons are one legitimate and one illegitimate, he would still try to be fair, otherwise it would be easy to provoke gossip. However, this time Sun Zhaoyang followed his maternal family, and those cars were loaded with gifts for the Yu family and other friends in Beijing who had a good relationship with them, and there was nothing they could do about it.

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  For several days in a row, it suddenly started pouring rain.

  Yang Yunqiu leaned against the car window and looked out, the heavy rain pounded the ground into a pockmarked expanse of water-filled holes, misty veils merged into one, almost invisible in front.

  "Look, what's written on the boundary stone ahead?"

  Li Shanshan also stuck to the window and looked outside.

  Yang Yunqiu glanced around: "It's Tianshui Town... We need to stop and rest for a while. As far as I know, the front is not far from the Bian River, and the water on the river is very strong. The bridges have been washed away, and we can't go for the time being."

  Li Shanshan and her maids didn't ask Yang Yinqu how she knew.

  All the way, whether there were mountains and rocks blocking the road or bandits robbing cars, Yang Yunqiu had not anticipated it. They asked curiously at first, but later they almost became numb to it.

  Li Shanshan only guessed that Yang Yunqiu might have released some kind of probe to explore the way, her maid, Er Ya, and Zhou Dali, simply took it as if their young master really had the ability to predict the future.

  Two servants brought out a box of pastries for the two masters to eat, frowning and saying: "It's not even summer, how can it be raining so heavily? It's really strange. In previous years, I haven't seen such unusual weather."

  Yang Yunqiu didn't say a word, but in her heart, she was also wondering if this kind of weather condition was really abnormal, just like the heavens had started to go crazy.

  He looked around and saw no one, so he stopped the horse, led it into the carriage, consumed a piece of energy crystal, activated the flying function of the carriage, and let it fly close to the ground.

  When they came out, the car made for him was equipped with a layer of wooden camouflage, and an old horse was arranged in front to pretend to pull the car. This lower-level cultivator didn't even have a refined instrument or a magic tool. According to legend, there were things like wooden cows and flowing horses, but they were absolutely just legends, and no one had ever seen them.

  Although Yang Yunqiu dared to let Wei Wang know some of his secrets, he allowed a small number of people to imagine his identity as very mysterious, but was not pleased with being too eye-catching.

  As they approached the town, Yang Yunqiu finally drove the old horse down from the carriage. The horse was not very pleased either, and had also been spoiled by him to learn how to be lazy, unlike the beginning when it would get anxious and whinny as soon as it got on the carriage.

  Tianshui Town is a relatively prosperous small town, with bluestone roads and wine shops and tea houses lining the streets. Most of the houses are made of earth and wood, but it's not close to the official road, so there aren't many travelers passing through on ordinary days. However, because it produces a very good white jade wine, which is tribute wine, every spring some big merchants come to buy wine, and there are several wine shops and inns in the town.

  Li Shanshan looked around and asked: "Where shall we go for dinner and stay overnight?"

  Yang Yunqiu looked around and chose a Tianquan Building on the east side of the small town.

  Li Shanshan was taken aback, this wine house was not eye-catching at all. In terms of size, it couldn't compare to the Tianxiang Building that had just passed by, and in terms of liveliness, it couldn't compare to the Chunlai Wine House.

  "Why did you choose this one?"

  Yang Yunqiu smiled and raised an eyebrow: "Because the feng shui is good enough... even when sleeping at night, one becomes more alert."

  Li Shanshan raised an eyebrow in surprise.

  "Master, master, could it be that this wine shop... isn't good?"

  Yang Yunqiu ignored her and walked up the stone steps, entering through the main gate.

  At this time, there were not many outsiders in Tian Shui Town. The Tian Quan Building was empty and the shopkeeper was dozing off on the table. Yang Yunqiu and his group got off the carriage with their umbrellas and entered the gate, which startled the shopkeeper awake, who then jumped up to greet them and invited them to sit down.

  "Welcome, ladies and gentlemen! Are you here for a short stay or an overnight stay?"

  "Give us three upstairs rooms." Yang Yunqiu smiled, "And prepare two tables of your specialty dishes."

  The shopkeeper hastily took note, Li Shanshan had already wiped the table clean and even scalded it with hot water again. She then took her own handmade towel to carefully wipe it down. After sitting down and seeing that the shopkeeper had finished taking notes and was about to leave, she said: "Don't forget to give our horses some of the best hay."